Semielastic braced tie



Patented Dec. 17, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE No Drawing. Application August 16, 1933, Serial No. 685,390

3 Claims.

The neck tie industry has made repeated efforts to brace and produce a tie that would be elastic in its construction, that is, that the tie would, after fabricatiomkeep its form and would not crease after knotting and untying and which would rebound to its original fiat form and shape. With these objects in view the industry has been cutting its tie linings and other fabric tie material on the bias so as to get a certain amount of elasticity in the tie, but without securing too much elasticity.

At the present time attempts are being made to weave into the tie fabric live rubber warp and weft strands all with the object of giving a warpwise or weftwise elastic action to the fabric. All of these elastic constructions are wrong from the start, as it is Well known to the tie industry that an elastic fabric is absolutely of no use in tie construction. In forming such a finished tie by the user the following defects appear at all times. First, the fabric does not allow for proper pulling, in the making of the knot. Secondly, it is hard to slip the knot so that the tie will form correctly. Thirdly, after the tie is made it is very hard to untie.

In the regular construction of these bias-cut fabric ties, various means are being applied to the tie to help the natural bias-cut fabric elasticity to return the tie to its proper form after knotting and untying. It is impossible to get the silk strands of these fabrics to a predetermined uniform elastic stretch or recovery after the tie is knotted and untied, as the strands now used are unequal in elasticity, some stretching more than others. Thus when the tie is pulled and knotted several times, it loses its original neat fiat appearance. For this reason, special wool lining fabric is used to aid the bias-cut fabric tie in recovering after knotting and untying. Also a basting thread of heavy silk is used to help the tie recover its original form. These basted ties are hard to make and generally need special linings.

The ties of myinvention require no lining or basting thread. I form these improved ties in the following manner.

First; I weave into a tie fabric as warp or weft or as warp and weft or as reinforcing or as design forming threads, live rubber strands placed at predetermined distances apart from each other, and woven or knit or stitched therein with no tension so as not to get a weftwise or warpwise retraction or stretch in the fabric, and

so that to all appearances the tie fabric feels and looks exactly like an ordinary tie fabric.

It will not stretch warpwise, it will not stretch weftwise; and when this rubber reinforced fabric is cut on the bias, it will give or stretch slightly on the bias in the same manner as will the ordinary tie fabric. By means of the live rubber strands incorporated in the fabric, this fabric will recover its natural form after being deformed l and released.

I find that the improvements above disclosed may also be attained by coating the back of an ordinary tie fabric with latex. This coating is unlike a waterproofing coating in that the latter is of a thick consistency; unsuited for tie use, which demands that the coating be of the thinnest kind, being sprayed or calendered or cemented onto the back of the tie fabric.

This coating should preferably be of a transparent nature so that the original coloring of the tie fabric will be more or less visible therethrough or the coating should be colored so as to harmonize with the color of the fabric.

I do not desire to be limited to the exact descriptions given above as it is obvious that the rubber can be applied in a hot or cold spray or cemented sheet to the tie material. Also cheap or higher priced rubber or similar elastic materials may be utilized. I therefore intend to cover all forms and arrangements coming within the defi- 3 nitions of my invention constituting the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A neck tie having non-wrinkling properties, comprising a fabric substantially inextensible warpwise and weftwise, said fabric being constructed of inelastic textile warp threads and weft threads, a portion of the weft threads being live rubber substantially free of tensile strain.

2. A neck tie having non-wrinkling properties, comprising a fabric substantially inextensible warpwise and weftwise, said fabric being constructed of inelastic textile warp threads, rubber warp threads free of tensile strain, and textile weft threads.

3. A neck tie having non-wrinkling properties, comprising a fabric substantially inextensible warpwise and weftwise, said fabric being constructed of inelastic warp threads, inelastic weft threads, and rubber threads dispersed among both warp and weft, the rubber threads being substantially free of strain.

ABRAHAM ROSENBERG.

DISCLAIMER 2,024,704.Abmham Rosenberg, Brooklyn, N. Y. SEMIELASTIC BRACED TIE. Patent dated December 17, 1935. Disclaimer filed March 1, 1938, by the patentee; and the assignee, Lillian Rosenberg. Hereby enter this disclaimer to that part of the specification which is in the following Words:

I find that the improvements above disclosed may also be attained by coating the back of an ordinary tie fabric with latex.

[Ofiicial Gazette April 5, 1988.] 

